OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Directions in Psychological Science is 16. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Music, Memory, and Imagination	168
Historical Psychology	123
Are We in Time? How Predictive Coding and Dynamical Systems Explain Musical Synchrony	105
The Golden Rule as a Paradigm for Fostering Prosocial Behavior With Virtual Reality	92
Parsing ADHD With Temperament Traits	92
How Mindsets Can Mitigate or Sustain Prejudice	89
Sidelining Bias: A Situationist Approach to Reduce the Consequences of Bias in Real-World Contexts	81
What Autism Taught Us About Our Social Nature	63
From Words to Worlds: Twenty-Five Years of Advances in Situation Model Research	63
How Children Develop Healthy Behavioral Choices to Promote Illness Prevention	62
The Link Between Companion Dogs, Human Fertility Rates, and Social Networks	59
Traces of Our Past: The Social Representation of the Physical World	59
Estimating the Time to Do Nothing: Toward Next-Generation Models of Response Inhibition	55
The Antecedents of Transformer Models	55
The Virtually Intelligent Negotiator: Building Trust and Maximizing Economic Gain in E-Negotiations	50
Cognitive Control in Schizophrenia: Advances in Computational Approaches	48
Beyond Stereotypes: Using Socioemotional Selectivity Theory to Improve Messaging to Older Adults	47
Well-Being After Psychopathology: A Transformational Research Agenda	47
A Romantic-Partner Model of Mental Health	45
Institutional Inversion and “Demand-Side” Versus “Supply-Side” Views of Culture	42
Motivated Egalitarianism	41
Forms and Functions of the Social Emotions	40
Parenting by Lying	38
The New Psychology of Secrecy	37
Work Identity and Future Research on Work as a Calling	35

Acknowledgment	34
The Social Congruency Framework: Mapping Different Types of Social Consumption Experiences	33
Bayes in the Age of Intelligent Machines	33
Interdependent Minds: Quantifying the Dynamics of Successful Social Interactions	32
Agency Through the We: Group-Based Control Theory	31
Do Social Networking Sites Influence Well-Being? The Extended Active-Passive Model	30
The Cascading Development of Visual Attention in Infancy: Learning to Look and Looking to Learn	29
Lessons for the Next Pandemic: What Children Taught Us About Navigating New Social Norms During COVID-19	28
The Neural Basis of Visual Search in Scene Context	27
Emerging Principles of Attention and Information Demand	25
Intraindividual Conflicts Reduce the Polarization of Attitudes	25
The Communicative Principle of Relevance	23
The Major Health Implications of Social Connection	23
Color-Evasive Cognition: The Unavoidable Impact of Scientific Racism in the Founding of a Field	23
Attachment as Prediction: Insights From Cognitive and Developmental Neuroscience	23
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work: A Functional-Identity Perspective	22
“Asian” Is a Problematic Category in Research and Practice: Insights From the Bamboo Ceiling	22
The Promise and Peril of Genetics	21
Romania’s Abandoned Children: The Effects of Early Profound Psychosocial Deprivation on the Course of Human Development	21
Learning and Transfer: A Perspective From Action Video Game Play	21
The PATHS to Purpose: A New Framework Toward Understanding Purpose Development	21
Names Matter: Implications of Name “Whitening” for Ethnic Minority Discrimination and Well-Being	20
Emerging Insights on the Role of Social Networks in Intergroup Friendship	19
Geometry and Force Dynamics in Simple Spatial Terms: Two Theories, One Resolution	19
Revising a Self-Regulation Phenotype for Depression Through Individual Differences in Macroscale Brain Organization	19
The Development of Communication Across Timescales	18
Moral-Exemplar Intervention: A New Paradigm for Conflict Resolution and Intergroup Reconciliation	18
Everybody Hurts: Intersecting and Colliding Epidemics and the Need for Integrated Behavioral Treatment of Chronic Pain and Substance Use	18
Ecospirituality	17
Decomposing the Motivation to Exert Mental Effort	17
Blood Pressure and Social Algesia: The Unexpected Relationship Between the Cardiovascular System and Sensitivity to Social Pain	17
Placebos and Movies: What Do They Have in Common?	17
Privacy Preferences and the Drive to Disclose	17
Winner Takes All! What Are Race Models, and Why and How Should Psychologists Use Them?	17
Five Misconceptions About Consensually Nonmonogamous Relationships	17
Disadvantaged-Group Members’ Experiences of Life Transitions: The Positive Impact of Social Connectedness and Group Memberships	16
Conspiracy Theories: Groups, Ideology, and Status as Three Distinct Bases for Expressions in Society	16
The Wobbly Bits of Development: Variability, Fluctuations, and Synchrony as Temporal Markers Linking Temperament and Psychopathology	16
Influences of Caregiving on Development: A Sensitive Period for Biological Embedding of Predictability and Safety Cues	16
The Privilege of Well-Being in an Increasingly Unequal Society	16
Psychological Science Meets Wearable Cognitive Assistance	16